• Phra paramatthachōtikā atthakathā khuddakapātha (The illuminator of the supreme meaning, a commentary on the First nine discourses of the Small discourses collection)
  

Author:

• Buddhaghosa

Contributor:

• Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Indic Manuscript no. 35.

Publisher:

• [Central Thailand] : [between 1800 and 1900]

Extent:

• 10 sections (196 leaves) : palm leaf ; 53 x 556 mm.

Format:

• Manuscript
• Book

Description:

• Ms.
• Layout: 5 lines.

Binding note:

• Lacquered black wood covers with red, gold and blue floral decoration. Leaves stacked in the pothi format. Tied with string through 1 of 2 holes into 10 fascicles. Gilt edges. Original native red cloth removed

Subject:

• Tipiṭaka Suttapiṭaka Khuddakanikāya Khuddakapāṭha—Commentaries—Early works to 1800
• Manuscripts, Pali—New Jersey—Princeton
• Wooden boards
• Gilt edges
• palm-leaf manuscripts
• Lacquered bindings

Provenance:

• Deposit no. 1484(2). Garrett.

Former owner:

• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961

Edm rights:

• Copyright Not Evaluated

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99130898956906421

Curator's notes:

• Buddhaghosa (5th century)

  Pali, in Khō̜m script
  Central Thailand, 1800–1900, palm leaves

  Palm leaf texts could be voluminous, as is this 196-leaf commentary on part of the Buddhist Pāli Canon. It is divided into 10 phūk, fascicles or bundles, each one held together by a string. All edges of the leaves are gilded, as is the recto (front side) of each fascicle’s first leaf with the title and the chapter number. The covers are lacquered black wood with red, gold, and blue decorations.

  Gift of Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, 1942
  Princeton Indic Manuscripts IM 35

  For further reading

  Grabowsky, Volker (ed.) Manuscript cultures and epigraphy of the Tai world. Bangkok: Silkworm Books, 2022.

Exhibit category:

• The pothī tradition
• From palm leaves to loose paper bundles